[IO Islamic 3445] Âtashkada

Âtashkada.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 694 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 3445 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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Another copy of the same.

This copy of the Âtashkada was written by the author’s own son, ‘Alî Muḥammad alshîrâzî alburûjirdi (ابن المرحوم لطفعلى على محمّد الشيرازى مسكناً البروجردى موطناً ), in the reign of Fatḥ ‘Alî Shâh of Persia, and finished in the month Ṣafar, A.H. 1215 (A.D. 1800, June, July). Index on ff. 3b-5b.

First Censer (مجمره ), older poets, on fol. 5b.

The flame ( شعله ), on fol. 5b; first firebrand (اخگر ), poets of Îrân, in five sparks (شراره ), on ff. 14a (heading omitted), 28a, 77a,85a, and 133a; second firebrand, poets of Tûrân, in three sparks, on ff. 152a, 157b (margin), and 161a (here must be read شرارۀ ثالثه instead of ثانيه ); third firebrand, poets of India, in three sparks, on ff. 175b (first and second شراره ) and 177b margin (here again شرارۀ ثالثه to be read instead of ثانيه ) .

The lustre ( فروغ ), poetesses, on fol. 178a.

Second Censer: modern and contemporary poets, on fol. 179a; Khâtimah (author’s autobiography, etc.), on fol. 211b margin.

A geographical index on the fly-leaves at the end of the MS.

No. 3445, ff. 235, 4 coll., each ll. 17, and a fifth on the margin, ll. 34; neat, but very small Nasta’lîḳ; large illuminated frontispiece, the first two pages gorgeously embellished; size, 82/8 in. by 53/8 in.